Michigan's North Lake order grew to $91.9 million, most of it in one change order
ICE's detention order at North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan opened at $18.0 million in August 2025. A single change order on January 21, 2026 added about $47.0 million — more than half of everything committed to date.
- Current award
- $91.9M
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR25FR0000096
- Last verified
- August 20, 2026
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Both copied strings carry the attribution language and the canonical link, and label the reported extension figure as reported potential value rather than obligated spending.
The receipt
ICE ordered detention and transportation services at North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan from the GEO Group. Committed money rose from about $18.0 million to about $91.9 million across seven actions, with about $47.0 million of that arriving in one change order in January 2026. About $66.6 million had been paid out.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Comprehensive detention and transportation services at the North Lake detention center, Baldwin, Michigan.”
The chain
- 01
Public money
ICE custody operations appropriations
Detention operations are funded from ICE custody operations accounts, expanded by P.L. 119-21.
No source attached - 02
Award
PIID 70CDCR25FR0000096
Delivery order under ICE vehicle 70CDCR25D00000009, signed August 1, 2025, period July 21, 2025 to July 20, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Recipient of record, with GEO Group also listed as the parent recipient.
No source attached - 04
Facility
North Lake, Baldwin, Michigan
The order names the North Lake detention center and later modifications name the North Lake Correctional Facility; a reviewer matched both to the single Baldwin, Michigan row in the ICE workbook extract this project carries.
No source attached - 05
Evidence boundary
Documented in the same detention system. Not presented as a causal attribution. The record below is documented alongside this funding chain, not asserted to be caused by it.
Human cost
Not established by this record
The contract record documents money, scope and dates. It documents no conditions, no treatment and no outcome for anyone held.
No source attached
Contract timeline
August 1, 2025
Step 01
Award signed
$17,999,289.00Description as recorded: “THE PURPOSE OF THIS TASK ORDER IS FOR COMPREHENSIVE DETENTION AND TRANSPORATION SERVICES FOR HOUSING CRIMINAL ALIENS AT NORTH LAKE DETENTION CENTER IN BALDWIN MI.”
September 19, 2025
Step 02
Modification P00001 — funding only action
$4,922,500.00Description as recorded: “THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO PROVIDE CONTINUING FUNDING FOR DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR HOUSING CRIMINAL ALIENS AT NORTH LAKE DETENTION CENTER IN BALDWIN…”
January 21, 2026
Step 03
Modification P00002 — change order
$46,978,632.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN BALDWIN MI. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FU…”
February 3, 2026
Step 04
Modification P00003 — other administrative action
Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN BALDWIN MI. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF …”
April 22, 2026
Step 05
Modification P00004 — funding only action
$1,000,000.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN BALDWIN MI. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR CONTI…”
May 19, 2026
Step 06
Modification P00005 — funding only action
$14,750,000.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN BALDWIN MI. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR CONTI…”
July 21, 2026
Step 07
Modification P00006 — funding only action
$6,210,000.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT PROVIDES DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN BALDWIN MI. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING FOR CONTI…”
July 20, 2026
Step 08
Current period of performance ends
End of the currently funded ordering period on the federal record. It is not a closeout date and it does not establish that work stopped.
August 20, 2026
Step 09
Potential period ends if every option is exercised
Latest end date reachable under the award if the government exercises all remaining options. The record does not establish that it will.
Period of performance: July 21, 2025 to July 20, 2026, with a potential end of August 20, 2026 if options are exercised.
Award trajectory
How the obligation on this award moved, action by action, against the value ceilings the source reports.
- Cumulative reported obligation
- Current value (exercised options) — $91,860,421.00
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $66,616,134.55
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR25FR0000096, retrieved 2026-08-20. Unit: US dollars, nominal, not inflation-adjusted.
The line steps only on dates the source records. Cash outlay is reported as a single to-date total with no action-level dates, so it is drawn as one marker at the retrieval date and never as a line across time. Each action mark is keyboard focusable.
Contract actions as a table (7) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 01, 2025 | DELIVERY ORDER | $17,999,289.00 | $17,999,289.00 | |
| Sep 19, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $4,922,500.00 | $22,921,789.00 | |
| Jan 21, 2026 | CHANGE ORDER | $46,978,632.00 | $69,900,421.00 | |
| Feb 03, 2026 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $0.00 | $69,900,421.00 | |
| Apr 22, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $1,000,000.00 | $70,900,421.00 | |
| May 19, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $14,750,000.00 | $85,650,421.00 | |
| Jul 21, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $6,210,000.00 | $91,860,421.00 |
Contractor and facilities
Recipient
GEO Group
THE GEO GROUP, INC.
Publicly traded private detention operator. Only the award records currently indexed here are totaled below; this is not the company's full federal portfolio.
Contractor profileFacilities named in the award
North Lake Processing Center
Baldwin, Michigan · Company-reported GEO facility used by ICE as a dedicated contract detention facility
The facility record beside the money record
North Lake Correctional Facility
Reviewed identity join · Contract detention facility
- Reported average daily population
- 1,266.3
- Reported average length of stay
- 53.1 days
- Reported guaranteed minimum
- 1,800
- Latest indexed oversight item
- Pre-Occupancy inspection ended March 4, 2025, marked Pass · March 4, 2025
- Accountability dossier
- Published, partial coverage
- Observed harm records: 0
- Attributed: 0
- Allegations: 0
This award does not establish any condition, finding or harm listed here. Population and length-of-stay figures are fiscal-year aggregates as of the workbook pull, not counts on the award dates. ICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20.
Evidence boundary
What the evidence establishes
- Seven dated actions run from August 1, 2025 to July 21, 2026.
- Committed money rose from about $18.0 million to about $91.9 million; about $66.6 million had been outlayed at the cutoff.
- The January 21, 2026 action is recorded as a change order, not a funding-only action, and carries about $47.0 million.
- The recorded current period of performance ended July 20, 2026, with a potential end date of August 20, 2026.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish what the January 2026 change order changed; the record labels the action and prints no revised statement of work.
- It does not establish how many people were held at North Lake on any date, or at what per-day price.
- It does not establish that services continue after the recorded period end.
- The order's wording about the population it houses is the government's own; the record establishes no individual's status or history.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. This project holds no accountability dossier for North Lake.
How this project categorizes harmOversight and intervention windows
These records live in the central leverage ledger. A date passing never closes one; it flags it for review.
No intervention window is recorded for this receipt in sources currently indexed.
Institutional channels · not windows
Standing official routes. Each establishes only that the channel exists; none implies a request, complaint, hearing, or investigation, and none carries a status or a date.
No official channel is published for this case.
Source docket
Provenance and corrections
- Source snapshot
- August 20, 2026
- Parser state
- automated parse manually reviewed
- Claim status
- verified against source
- Corrections
- None recorded